IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD AND BURIED STORIES OF THE YEAR

[GoBlue]

We come to bury 2003 – not to praise it. For this was the year of distraction, not news. It was the year of diversion, not information. It was the year in which TV “news” became a political tool to promote a war and protect the secrets of a furtive administration. It was a year which gave new meaning to the phrase, “No news is good news.” And it was the year whose passing we will not mourn.

<snip> http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/epitaph_to_the_tv_news_network.html


THE BEST OF THE BURIED STORIES
Note: The American press received a dismal ranking of 32nd in the world for freedom of the press by Reporters Without Borders,

Dick Cheney’s Secret Energy Meetings: the stonewalling, the evasions, the lawsuits, the challenges, the MAPS of Iraqi oilfields…..
The Voting Machine Scandal: a relentless effort by the GOP to implement a bug ridden, easily tampered with voting machine system, eliminating a paper trail or any way of verifying an election’s outcome, the promise by owner of a voting machine company to help deliver the 2004 election to George W. Bush...
The Project for a New American Century: the players now in government, the Iraqi war plans of 1997, their influence on the Bush Doctrine of preemption and military domination of the globe….
The Office of Homeland Security: Bush’s opposition to a cabinet post of Homeland Security, coming under pressure, then taking the credit, then doing nothing to make America safer…..
The 9/11 Investigation: the opposition, the stonewalling, the lies about having no idea planes could be weapons, the cover-up, the blacked out pages….
The Protest Against the War: the huge rallies all over the nation and the world, the real numbers of protesters, their stories, their reasons…..
The Lies that Led to War: the false claim that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the US, the false Al-Qaeda connection, the WMD lies, the lies to the UN…..
The Terrorization of America: The repeated references to“terror” and “terrorist” by Bush and his entire entourage as a tool to gain support for war in Iraq and justify the invasion of Iraq.
The Civilian Casualtiesof “Shock and Awe” and its Aftermath: the numbers of dead Iraqi civilians; the wounded; the maimed; - the order to stop counting civilian deaths given to the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
Ahmed Chalabi – the Real Story: his not having lived in Iraq since the 1950’s, the tens of millions given to him to foment internal revolution, his connection to Paul Wolfowitz, the armed thugs he brought to Iraq, his goals to be in charge…..
Staging the Saddam Statue Drama : the staging of this PR event, using Chalabi’s armed thugs to pose as elated Iraqi’s.
The Women of Iraq: How Iraqi women were the most liberated of any in the Moslem world, how they are now under Shia rule which has taken their freedoms away, the rapes, the kidnaps, their fear to walk freely without male escorts....
The Debacle in Afghanistan: The failure to win the war against the Taliban once Iraq diverted our military and our funds, the warlords return, the heroin production that has been revived, the Taliban revival, the numbers of civilian deaths…..
The Coalition of the Billing: exposing the ridiculously small numbers of military personnel from the touted 60 nation ‘coalition of the willing,’ their rewards in contracts, in loans, in aid, in favoritism…..
Hallibuton and Friends: the granting of unbid contracts, the ‘deferred’ payments yearly to Dick Cheney, the failure of school rebuilding, the profiteering…..
The Military Dead and Wounded: the real numbers, those dying in hospitals, the numbers of injured and severity of wounds; the suicides, the “non hostile gunshot deaths,” the accidents……
Impeachment: distorting intelligence information as grounds for impeachment, the statements of John Dean of Watergate notoriety, petitions calling for impeachment of George Bush…..
Bush and the World Community: how he has to travel with hundreds to protect him in every country of the world, how he has to be kept away from the people, the protests against Bush wherever he travels, how he could not even visit with the people of the country he claimed to “liberate” – on Thanksgiving…..
The Wilson Leak: the criminal outing of a CIA operative by someone in the White House, the Novak connection, the six week silence by the President, the refusal to appoint an impartial investigator, the silence…….

[grannylib]

1. Hope you have sent this to all the 'news' organizations that should be

covering this stuff...

[no name no slogan]

2. Good stuff-- ever hear of "Project Censored"?

They do a run-down of the most censored/ignored stories of the past year, and do an excellent job of "uncovering" stories that the major media has ignored, for one reason or another.

If you've not heard of them, you should visit their website at www.projectcensored.org.

[tom_paine]

3. You forgot Dubya's Harken Ripoff

THREE times the alleged size of Whitewater, right down the Memory Hole Orwell prophesied so perfectly.

Or was that a Sovietized story from 2002?